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CHAPTER 41

Author: Lila Williams
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The ceremonial ribbons binding my wrists felt exactly as I remembered—silk against skin, humiliation wrapped in tradition. I knelt in the mud outside Ironfang Palace, supposedly tribute but actually assassin. Except this time, I knew how that story ended.

I knew these princes were innocent.

I knew Queen Mother Isadora was the true monster.

I knew I would fall in love with the men I came to destroy.

And I knew that knowledge changed everything.

"Rise, omega." Prince Kael's voice carried the same cold authority I remembered from our first meeting. But now I heard the weight he carried beneath the ice—the burden of believing his family were heroes when they were thieves.

I stood slowly, my legs shaking not from fear but from the surreal horror of living through this moment again. How was I supposed to pretend ignorance when I knew exactly what lay ahead?

"You are smaller than expected," Prince Darius observed, his amber eyes assessing me with protective suspicion that would later become
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